Notes on Breasts
Human breasts are not like breasts in any other mammal. For example, the breasts of our near relatives, the apes and chimpanzees, only swell when the female is lactating - giving milk for her babies. Even then, they do not swell very much. When the baby is weaned, the breasts disappear, the chest is flat again, and you can hardly see where the nipples are because they are hidden in fur.
In human biology lessons, we are told that scientists do not know why breasts in the human female grow and swell the way they do during adolescence and remain like that even when the female is not suckling children. Neither do they know why there are so many shapes and sizes. What purpose do breasts and their great variety serve in our evolution? There are so many guesses and theories, but no one has ever been able to demonstrate that their theory is the right one. Most scientists think the main purpose is to attract males, and that is why there are so many varieties - something for every taste and fancy. Perhaps it is important to our evolution that there are as many different varieties of people as possible, so that there are always some of us who can adapt to any change or condition of the environment. When it comes to human survival, variety is the spice of life.
The thing is, it doesn't matter what size or shape of breasts women have, they all have the same amount of dairy equipment. A small-breasted woman produces as much milk as a large-breasted woman when feeding a baby. And when they are pregnant, women's boobs put on about the same amount of weight whatever start they are to start with, which is why a small-breasted woman's seem to grow more when pregnant than a large-breasted woman's do.
The average breast, when a woman is not pregnant or feeding a baby, weighs about 10.8 ounces. About the same as a small melon. It is about four inches across and two and a half inches from the base to the tip of the nipple.
Obviously, breasts have two jobs. They have a mothering job as an open-all-hours mobile café for feeding babies. And they have a sex job to attract and please men.
The mobile café job - Have you ever wondered why we belong to the group of animals called "mammals"? The answer is that we were given that name in the nineteenth century by Mr Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish scientist who did a lot of cataloguing and naming of plants and animals. The word "mammal" comes from "mamma", which is Latin for "breast" (which must be why children everywhere call their mother mamma, mam, ma, mom, mum, etc.) Therefore, all animals called mammals are "animals of the breast." That is what they share in common, which other animals do not. (This includes males. You only have to observe older men in summer, when they insist on wearing totally inapproriate clothing such as tight t-shirts or, worse, go topless, that many of them have bigger and certainly flabbier boobs than most women.) It might also interest you to know that it was Mr Linnaeus who gave human beings the name homo sapiens, which means "man of wisdom." This seems to me to be erroneous, as it excludes half the human race. I suppose he thought that women are not wise, though all the evidence suggests exactly the opposite is true, and therefore it would be better to call us femina sapiens, seeing as how men have a female gene in their biological makeup, whereas women have only female genes.
The sex job - Breasts are the only part of the female anatomy that combines both roles.
Men are so fascinated by papilla because every man wants to be sexually excited and satisfied and also wants to be mothered and coddled and pampered as if he were still a child (which most of them are, judging by their behavior.) But they do not usually want both of these at the same time. Which is why, in my opinion, so many of them who are married have girlfriends or go to prostitutes. Being men, and therefore incapable of thinking of two different things and doing two different things at the same time, the only way they can handle their basic animal desires is to have one woman to mother them and one for sex.
The sexual attraction of breasts is a feature of developed Western cultures, whereas in most African and Asian cultures, they are not as sexualised in this way. In most cultures, women often walk around topless and their clothes do not emphasise the breasts in the way our women's clothes often do and our men like them to. But it is a fact that everybody everywhere loves breasts. Babies, children, men, and women. Breasts feed our bodies when we are babies and feed our fantasies and our desires when we are grown up.
Addendum: More facts.
A breast is a gland that produces liquid. The liquid is a kind of sweat. Milk is therefore a very nourishing body fluid. So it is true to say that breasts are two bags of fat.
The tissue of the body out of which breasts are made starts to grow by the fourth week of a baby's life in the womb. It grows down both sides of the body, like tracks, from the armpits to the groin, in males and in females. But because of the way hormones work, only females grow breasts. Mammals which have large litters develop many teats along the milk tracks. Animals like us, who only (usually) have one or two babies at a time, develop only two breasts.
Animals that walk on all all four usually develop breasts toward the back end of their bodies so that their babies are protected by the big back legs and the body of the mother while they are suckling underneath. Animals like gorillas and chimpanzees and humans that stand up and walk on two legs grow their breasts high up on their chests so that they can carry their young and feed them while standing, sitting, or walking.
Human breasts grow before a woman needs to them give milk. This may seem odd until you remember that they have to do their sex job first, in order to attract a male to mate with, before they are needed for their mothering job.
In human biology lessons, we are told that scientists do not know why breasts in the human female grow and swell the way they do during adolescence and remain like that even when the female is not suckling children. Neither do they know why there are so many shapes and sizes. What purpose do breasts and their great variety serve in our evolution? There are so many guesses and theories, but no one has ever been able to demonstrate that their theory is the right one. Most scientists think the main purpose is to attract males, and that is why there are so many varieties - something for every taste and fancy. Perhaps it is important to our evolution that there are as many different varieties of people as possible, so that there are always some of us who can adapt to any change or condition of the environment. When it comes to human survival, variety is the spice of life.
The thing is, it doesn't matter what size or shape of breasts women have, they all have the same amount of dairy equipment. A small-breasted woman produces as much milk as a large-breasted woman when feeding a baby. And when they are pregnant, women's boobs put on about the same amount of weight whatever start they are to start with, which is why a small-breasted woman's seem to grow more when pregnant than a large-breasted woman's do.
The average breast, when a woman is not pregnant or feeding a baby, weighs about 10.8 ounces. About the same as a small melon. It is about four inches across and two and a half inches from the base to the tip of the nipple.
Obviously, breasts have two jobs. They have a mothering job as an open-all-hours mobile café for feeding babies. And they have a sex job to attract and please men.
The mobile café job - Have you ever wondered why we belong to the group of animals called "mammals"? The answer is that we were given that name in the nineteenth century by Mr Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish scientist who did a lot of cataloguing and naming of plants and animals. The word "mammal" comes from "mamma", which is Latin for "breast" (which must be why children everywhere call their mother mamma, mam, ma, mom, mum, etc.) Therefore, all animals called mammals are "animals of the breast." That is what they share in common, which other animals do not. (This includes males. You only have to observe older men in summer, when they insist on wearing totally inapproriate clothing such as tight t-shirts or, worse, go topless, that many of them have bigger and certainly flabbier boobs than most women.) It might also interest you to know that it was Mr Linnaeus who gave human beings the name homo sapiens, which means "man of wisdom." This seems to me to be erroneous, as it excludes half the human race. I suppose he thought that women are not wise, though all the evidence suggests exactly the opposite is true, and therefore it would be better to call us femina sapiens, seeing as how men have a female gene in their biological makeup, whereas women have only female genes.
The sex job - Breasts are the only part of the female anatomy that combines both roles.
Men are so fascinated by papilla because every man wants to be sexually excited and satisfied and also wants to be mothered and coddled and pampered as if he were still a child (which most of them are, judging by their behavior.) But they do not usually want both of these at the same time. Which is why, in my opinion, so many of them who are married have girlfriends or go to prostitutes. Being men, and therefore incapable of thinking of two different things and doing two different things at the same time, the only way they can handle their basic animal desires is to have one woman to mother them and one for sex.
The sexual attraction of breasts is a feature of developed Western cultures, whereas in most African and Asian cultures, they are not as sexualised in this way. In most cultures, women often walk around topless and their clothes do not emphasise the breasts in the way our women's clothes often do and our men like them to. But it is a fact that everybody everywhere loves breasts. Babies, children, men, and women. Breasts feed our bodies when we are babies and feed our fantasies and our desires when we are grown up.
Addendum: More facts.
A breast is a gland that produces liquid. The liquid is a kind of sweat. Milk is therefore a very nourishing body fluid. So it is true to say that breasts are two bags of fat.
The tissue of the body out of which breasts are made starts to grow by the fourth week of a baby's life in the womb. It grows down both sides of the body, like tracks, from the armpits to the groin, in males and in females. But because of the way hormones work, only females grow breasts. Mammals which have large litters develop many teats along the milk tracks. Animals like us, who only (usually) have one or two babies at a time, develop only two breasts.
Animals that walk on all all four usually develop breasts toward the back end of their bodies so that their babies are protected by the big back legs and the body of the mother while they are suckling underneath. Animals like gorillas and chimpanzees and humans that stand up and walk on two legs grow their breasts high up on their chests so that they can carry their young and feed them while standing, sitting, or walking.
Human breasts grow before a woman needs to them give milk. This may seem odd until you remember that they have to do their sex job first, in order to attract a male to mate with, before they are needed for their mothering job.